Marva
Marva is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 334th, in 1936.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1948371 births
- Best rank
- #334in 1936
- Since 1913
- 10,362people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,362 girls have been named Marva in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1948, with 371 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 371 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1940s alone account for 30%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marva | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 80 | |
| 1920s | 394 | |
| 1930s | 1,846 | |
| 1940s | 3,116 | |
| 1950s | 2,576 | |
| 1960s | 1,344 | |
| 1970s | 571 | |
| 1980s | 281 | |
| 1990s | 110 | |
| 2000s | 19 | |
| 2010s | 15 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1948, its biggest year
Marva was the 411th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1948 were Linda, Mary, Barbara, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1948.
Names that rose and fell with Marva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaypeak 1942
- Claudettepeak 1935
- Janycepeak 1947
- Carolpeak 1946
- Karelpeak 1939
- Carollpeak 1946
- Maryannpeak 1943
- Jerriepeak 1946
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.